mbox – Something better to do

Rambling about hacking on my creaky old email archival infrastructure

What started out as a simple message archiving task turned into many hours of debugging, fixing, and cleaning up the old archives. Both frustrating and fun at the same time.

My new favorite open-source software: mairix by Richard Curnow

I am an email pack-rat. I have saved just about every email message I’ve sent or received at work or at home in the past twenty years (excluding messages sent to public mailing lists). That’s a lot of email, over 400,000 messages. I don’t just do this for the heck of it. I look for… Read More »